By Fernando Fuentes
Definitely one of the weirder films from the festival, Time Share begins with a lighter tone and eventually transforms into almost a darker, sinister horror film.
Directed by Sebastian Hoffman, the film begins with an eerie pre-credit prologue showing a young Andres (Miguel Rodarte) and Gloria (Montserrat Maranon) working at the resort and having some unclear issue with each other. Andres has a panic attack resulting in the story jumping 5 years into the future. Suddenly we are brought into the lives of a new family; Pedro (Luis Gerardo Mendez) and Eva (Cassandra Ciangherotti) are at the resort with their child hoping to “heal” as they are clearly going through issues of their own. However, a mix-up at the resort is made as they have overbooked and have no extra vacancies. Pedro is then forced to spend the remainder of his family vacation with Abel (Andres Almeida) and his own family. The perspective keeps changing between an older Andres and Pedro as they both slowly figure out what’s truly going on at the resort.
The cinematography and lighting of the film are astonishing and bring out the tone very well, as much of the movie is covered in a very bright magenta or a radioactive blue. Time Share pokes at patriarchal insecurity and corporate invasion of one’s privacy as well as how far companies will go to sell you their product. I learned that even when making films you do not need a physical antagonist. Sometimes the antagonist can be an idea such as how the paranoia or fear within the protagonists was also their antagonist.
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